Bill-file.



PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

E. W. KRUSE.

, BILL FILE.

APPLIOATION FILED P23141906.

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Witness as EDWARD W. KRUSE, OF HIGGIL SVILLE, MISSOURI.

BILL-FILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed February 24, 1906. Serial No. 302,778.

T0 [0% whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. Know, a citizen of the United States, residing at Higginsville, in the county of La Fayette and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill-Files, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bill-files, and more especially to that class upon which bills are impaled and from which they hang; and my object is to produce a double bill-file of this character, whereby the person in charge can remove the bills from the file in the order in which they were placed upon it.

A further object is to produce a double bill-file detachably mounted upon a suitable frame, whereby it may be secured to or suspended from any suitable support.

To this end the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a front view of a com bined bill-file and calendar embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section on the line II II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a detail perspective view of the bill-file with a bill suspended from one hook (in full lines) and with the same bill suspended from the other hook, (in dotted lines.)

In the said drawings, 1 indicates a sheetmetal frame provided. at its opposite side margins and front side with inwardlydisposed hooks 2 and at its upper end with a rearwardly-disposed hook 3.

The bill-file proper is composed of springwire bent to substantially inverted-U form, with its ends turned forward and upward in the planes of their respective sides by preference,so as to provide the two similar hooks 4, having their upper ends sharpened, as usual in this class of device. The inverted- U-shaped or arched body portion is numbored 5 and in practice is slipped into the rearwardly-disposed hook 3 of the frame, the file being then swung downward with hook 3 as the pivotal point. The sides of the U- frame are then sprung inward between the inwardly-disposed. hooks 2 and released, so that they shall spring outwardly and engage said hooks, in which position the tendency of said sides or hooks to move apart serves to reliably hold them.

6 indicates a series of bills, which are adapted to be filed on one of the hooks in the order in which they are received in the usual manner. When it is desired to remove said bills in the order in which they were received, the hooks are sprung inwardly from engagement with hooks 2, and then the bill-file is disconnected from hook 3. The operator then grasps the bills and slides them to the position shown by dotted lines, Fig. 3. As a result of this adjustment the position of bills with respect to the front of the file is reversedthat is to say, the billwhich was last impaled or filed, and which on the original hook must necessarily have been the first to be removed, is now upon the second hook, most remote from the operator, and consequently must be the last to be removed from said hook. A double bill-file of this character, which enables the bookkeeper to remove them from the file in the order in which they were received, will be found of great convenience in practically all offices where bill-files are employed.

7 indicates a circular series of perforations numbered from one to thirty-one, inclusive, so as to represent a month containing the maximum number of days or a shorter month. Arranged concentrically within the circle of holes 7 is a second circular series of holes 8, representative of the months of the year, and adjacent to said holes are abbreviations of the names of said months, as Jan, Feb, &c. 9 indicates a pivot, preferably a removable pivot, mounted in frame 1 cent'rally of said series of holes, and 10 indicates a hook-shaped index-finger pivoted on pin 9 and adapted to successively engage the first-named series of holes.

11 indicates a second hook-shaped indexfinger pivoted on pin 9, so as to be capable of passing or being passed by finger 10, and said finger 11 is adapted to successively engage the holes representative of the months of the year.

12 indicates a hand pivoted on pin 9 between finger 1 1 and frame 1, and said hand is provided with seven radiating fingers 13 containing the letters S, M, T, W, T, F, S]

indicative of the days of the week and in radial alinement with seven consecutivelynumbered holes representative of the day of the month. At its opposite side hand 12 is provided with a hook-finger 14 for engage ment with one or another of a series of holes 15 in frame 1, said holes 15 being so spaced that when the hook-finger 14 engages one of them the first finger 13 of hand 12 will point to the day on which. Sunday falls. For

1 instance, assuming that January 1 falls on Sunday the Sunday finger of hand 12 will point to the hole of series 7 which represents the first day of the week, as shown in Fig. 1. .The other fingers as the days go by point to their respective days of the week, and at the beginning of the next week said hand is shifted through a space of ninety degrees, so that its first or Sunday finger will point to the hole of series 7 representative of the second Sunday in the month. The same adjustment follows at the end. of each week, so that a person knowing the date will readily see the name of the day on which said date occurs.

It will be understood that there will be thirty-one holes 15 (the drawings show but three) to accommodate the adjustment of hand 12 when. Sunday falls on diflerent days of the month.

As the days go by the date is kept track of by advancing hand 10 one hole each day. The hand 11 is of course moved but twelve times in the course of a year, so that it shall engage the hole of series 8 representative of the proper month.

From the above it will be seen that I have produced a perpetual calendar which is sim ple and cheap of construction and provides a reliable index for ascertaining the month, the day thereof, and the day of the week.

Detachably secured to the frame above the series of apertures is a placard. to indicate the year, as 1906, and detachably secured by paper clips 17 or otherwise to and depending from the lower portion of the frame is a plate or card 18, upon which the name, business,

and location of the owner of the file may appear, or such-card in the nature of an advertisement may contain the name, business, and location of any other person, such as the manufacturer or inventor.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a combined double bill-file and calendar which possesses the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the object of the invention and which is susceptible of minor changes without departing from the principle of construction involved.

Having thus described. the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a double bill-file consisting of a piece of spring-wire bent to form an arch and then bent near its ends to form a pair of upwardly-disposed hooks, and a frame provided with a hook detachably engaging the upper portion of the arch of the bill-file and with hooks to engage the side portions of said arch.

2. The combination of a frame having a pair of hooks, and a spring-metal bill-file of inverted-U shape with its arms engaging said hooks with a yielding pressure; said arms having their lower ends bent upwardly to form hooks occupying planes substantially at right angles to the plane of the Ushaped portion.

In testimony whereof I a'ffiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDl/VARD WV. KRUSE.

Witnesses.

Jos. W. LAYNE, J. L. PRIGMORE. 

